... the boys rather than just memorizing line after line. (Protagoras 325-326). Another subject that was taught, drawing, received praise from Aristotle because it "is supposed to be useful in enabling us to judge the work of craftsmen better." (Politics VIII.3). As one can see, the education of an Athenian was far less demanding and physically stressful than that of a Spartan. The ... killing. As always, every event mandated by the state was for the sole purpose of creating a warrior that would die for his homeland. Bibliography Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics. David Ross. Ed. Oxford: Ox...

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... to create a state of soldiers to effectively control the helots, who vastly outnumbered the Spartiates. This represented a weakness in the state and economic structure that hindered its power, and Aristotle (from The Politics, quoted in Hennessy, 1991, 69) is critical of Sparta's brutal methods employed to control them as he states "results of this kind go to show that the state has ... ...

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